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Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2019
3
Grants FY2019
3
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$23,786
Largest grant, FY2019
$23,787
Organizations funded a year
3 to 27
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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EducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20193$71k0%
FY201827$2.5M41%
FY201725$240kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$1.2MHealth$479kEnvironment$330kFood & Nutrition$254kArts & Culture$169kCommunity Improvement$150kHousing & Shelter$133kCrime & Legal$70kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($623k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Oregon Foundation: $950,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDominican Hospital Foundation: $278,787 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $260,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPajaro Valley Shelter Services: $94,786 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetElkhorn Slough Foundation: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFanconi Cancer Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSt Francis Catholic Kitchen: $70,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetDientes Community Dental Care: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of Santa Cruz County: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHousing Matters: $36,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGrey Bears: $28,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Cruz County Symphony Association: $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSiena House Maternity Home of Santa Cruz County: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPajaro Valley Arts Council: $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Dignity Health · William J Codiga Family Foundation · The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter Family Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Michael & Alice Chetkovich Foundation · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust

How much does Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust give?
Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust reported 3 grants totaling $71,359 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (17%), Environment (12%).
Who are Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: University of Oregon Foundation ($950k), Dominican Hospital Foundation ($279k), Cabrillo College Foundation ($260k).
Does Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Dignity Health.
Where is Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust based?
Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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